Question: Was Lewis Hamilton a member of the sports team Minardi?
Paraphrase: The first attempt to rank drivers using a model was in 2009 by Eichenberger and Stadelmann (paper here and pdf here). Without giving too much away, my model agrees with theirs on several of the top ranked drivers. However, many of the previous model’s results don’t pass a sanity check. Ukyo Katayama is ranked ahead of Nigel Mansell, Erik Comas is ranked ahead of Ayrton Senna, Arturo Merzario is ranked ahead of Jack Brabham, Mark Blundell is ranked ahead of Niki Lauda, and Mike Hawthorn is ranked 5th best of all time. Understandably, the model didn’t get a warm reception in online forums.
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